Hello - just trying to get a sense of whether I should book our flights now or whether I should keep waiting. We're flying from DC to Anchorage in mid-July, then doing a short roundtrip to Cordova from Anchorage, then flying back to DC within the space of 10 days. If I price the whole thing out on Alaska Airlines as a multi-city trip, it comes out to somewhere between $755 and $775. Is this the best I can hope for?

Have you looked at including Cordova as a stopover en route between Anchorage and Seattle (for your DC connection) rather than a RT to CDV? Alaska Airlines has daily flights to Cordova on planes that then continue on south (via Juneau and other "milk run" stops) to Seattle. So your multi-stop route would be IAD (or DCA) - SEA - ANC - CDV - SEA - IAD (or DCA).

Unfortunately, the timing doesn't work out very well - the Cordova-Seattle run leaves around 5 pm on the Sunday we want to leave and gets into Seattle near midnight, which means that we'd have to stay overnight in Seattle to catch a flight out that Monday morning. It's also priced about the same right now.

Returning back to Anchorage after Cordova means that we'd stay overnight in Anchorage before leaving first thing in the morning and get back to DC on Sunday evening, in time for work on Monday.

I meant to say also that we would return to Anchorage from Cordova on Saturday night.

just booked a june flight from detroit to anchorage,returning seattle detroit for under450 .they had been more. that was on northwest. I dont know if that helps you. both are non stop flights. good luck!

Are you flying round trip Anchorage?? There have been some really cheap Alaska Airlines fares- around $300?? I don't know if they are still available?? Also look into scheduled flights with ERA to Cordova- they sometimes offer specials. Get on the www.toursaver.com email list. They send out all the local deals with flights.